Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes

Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

The entire universe is just an expression, projection, of the Being, of the Self. Within this small body, you are able to experience the infinite space.

Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

Whatever is needed for you and your body will be taken care of, when you know this the lack will disappear from your life. When you realise ISHA permeates your everything you relax and are at ease - that is when things happen.

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

Enthusiasm is the nature of life. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies.

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.

There is a skill to learning. It is all about what is and what is not. While Science is knowing what is, Art is creating what is not.

Dissolving the name is awareness.
Dissolving the form is meditation.
The world is name and form.
Bliss transcends name and form.

Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.

Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss

You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart.
You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you, like a saint.
Be a saint and a soldier, together

Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.

A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One.

If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you - remember me.

Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy.
In always wanting perfection, you become angry.
In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.

Hold on to your dreams, one day, it will come true.

If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you

The fire of love or fire of knowledge creates unpleasantness or a sense of longing in the beginning, but it moves on to the blossoming of bliss, the blossoming of fullness.

Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one's progress on the spiritual path and renew one's determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year

The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.

If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings - how you feel, what you think, what you do ... You are responsible.

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment.

Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.

When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues

When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.

Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty or ugliness, love or compassion, joy or sorrow. Will a chair ever feel sorry or happy? No, matter does not have these finer values. They belong to the realm of the spirit. But life is also more than spirit. If it were just spirit, there would be no need for water, food, or rest. Human life is a combination of both matter and spirit.

The first thing we do when we're born is we breathe in, and we cry. And the last thing we do when we die is we breathe out, and other people cry.

If you are passionate, be passionate about the highest, the most wonderful, and the most beautiful. Be passionate about this entire creation for everything is so beautiful.

Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized
it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.

Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others.

Drop all your botheration to me and be free of worry

Knowledge of life brings confidence. Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centered.

Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.

Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

Don't keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

The overwhelming problem in the world today, everyone knows, is terrorism, where people in the name of religion kill each other, kill others just to go to heaven, and thinking only they will go to heaven.

Dvityadvai bhayam bhavati which means, Fear is the result of duality.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

If everything appears meaningless then
congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.

When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest

To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.

Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you.

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.

Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

If you turn back time and look, 5100 years ago in the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna did the same thing. He has been the first HR manager India knows. When Arjuna was so depressed and was not ready to do his job, Lord Krishna was with him in the battlefield, and told him all sorts of things. First, He warned Arjuna that people would blame him for sure. Then He incited Arjuna's ego and tried to wake him up. And then He offered His disciple different incentives, saying, "If you win, you will have the kingdom. If you lose, you will enjoy Heaven. Come on, fight." In many ways, Lord Krishna lifted Arjuna out of that depression.

The best form of worship is to be happy, to be grateful.

Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.

Why do you think you are weak? Wake up and see you have all the strength.

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

When mind controls man, it's ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it's ... Yoga

For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.

I say, drop all your defenses. Anyone can make a mistake - even you. Do not defend your mistakes; just accept them and move on. When you are totally defenseless, that is when you will be completely strong.

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma).
One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa.
Rely on your Self; self-reliance

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!

Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world

Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.

Why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.

When you are totally defenseless, that's when you'll be strong.

If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.

Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft

Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self

Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.